Apparel Co. Loses $325M Military Uniform Bid Protest

Law360, New York (May 17, 2013, 2:00 PM EDT) -- Alabama-based American Apparel Inc. lost a bid protest over a $325 million military uniform contract Thursday, failing to convince the U.S. Government Accountability Office that the government should have considered the winner’s poor performance on a contract that ended after the bidding period had closed.

After the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency chose Puerto Rico-based Bluewater Defense over American Apparel and eight other companies for a contract to manufacture military trousers in January, American Apparel, which held the previous DLA contract for the uniforms, protested that the...